Black people arent racist...

I don’t sense that much hostility and I’m quite adept in picking up on negative vibes

Hotwater

 

That's terrible. I'm very sorry to hear that, as those are the types of comments that make me ashamed of (parts of) the human race. There are good and bad people of every color race and ethnicity.

I bet you are one of the good ones.

 

To say 'hiphop' culture is a bunch of wannabe thugs is hilarious by the way.

HIPHOP culture is possibly one of the last bastions of true self expression in music. I could make that argument. And there are no wannabe thugs in HIPHOP...that doesn't exist.

 

You wanna know how to stop racism against anyone?

Stop fuckin talking about it.

I think it was George Carlin who made that point. Get rid of all of the things that segregate us. No race needs a "month," no race needs a TV channel...just get over the fact that some people have a different skin color.

You say blacks are racist. So are Asians, Europeans, Indians, Latins, WHITES, etc.

Stop putting so much effort toward talking about racism and thinking about racism.

 

I don't agree with the claim that black people aren't racist. I'm pretty sure that Jesse Owens was pretty damn fast. And what about Ben Johnson?

 

I like how you take book titles and try to turn them into your own dribbles of intellect...

 

If memory serves Ben johnson was stripped of his gold medal at the 1988 olympics for testing positive for steroids and sent home in disgrace

Hotwater

 

was it george carlin? i thought it was almost everybody.

 

While I agree that getting over the blatant things that segregate us, I don't know if it's really possible to get rid of everything that segregates people. A lot of those things are subtle and I think a lot of the more loud responses, like heritage months, TV channels, magazines, etc. are a response to the fact that there are lots of people and more importantly systems and establishments that are not going to get over racism until/unless several systems and our entire culture which is based on and operates on racist principles, are completed bashed to pieces themselves. We would have to start over for racism to actually cease to exist.

I know a lot of people want to believe that if we just stopped talking about it and focusing on it, it would go away. I felt that way for a really long time...but I think in actuality there has to be a balance between acknowledging racist behavior and denying that racism exists. Not pointing the finger when it really does happen is just encouraging it grow silently. That's my opinion.

I think it's a lot easier to not see it when you're not a minority. I think it doesn't seem very important to have heritage months, or media representations of your subgroup when you see it all the time, in various flavors all over the place. You don't get to feel like you are limited to only act like the few people of your subgroup who have become cultural representatives.

Take me for an example. To be 100% honest, if it wasn't for Black History Month and several other specifically black focused media publications, I would have found it extremely difficult to feel anything less than inferior in every way. I was lucky, I think that I went batshit crazy in my teens because I became liberated from all the ways society views and brainwashes dark skinned, kinky haired people to see themselves. However, too many of the people I know with my background are not liberated and don't know how much they've buyed into segregated ideas. That they must stay in certain places, in certain roles, do and say and listen to certain things. I don't actually think these black programs are enough.

And I see this across all racial divides...it takes a shit-ton of liberation to break out of such restrictive roles and ideas of who you can be. No one wants to be seen as crazy, but if you look at TV and see that everyone who looks like you acts a certain way and you're not that way...you're going to feel crazy, displaced, inferior...unless you have a rare background or breaking point that allows you to open your mind and forge your own way.

In another spectrum, my family is also Native American, which is even worse. Although my family is aware of this background, due to the history they don't even allow themselves to connect with it. I was fortunate in some way, I suppose in that I connected with that at a very young age in a mystical sense and I was never capable of separating it from myself although I tried, because once again I thought I must be crazy... due to Native American websites, magazines and heritage months & celebrations I was finally able to connect to that part of my culture without feeling limited but once again in that community, I see many who aren't as fortunate as I have been to see outside of the institutionalized ideas of segregated and racist ideas.

So, I don't think not talking about racism will stop it from existing. It would help to clearly define what it is and create varied ideas for people to learn to accept themselves without the paranoia of being discriminated against or locked into small, determined roles and lifestyles based on their race, ethnicity or cultural background.

kwim?

 

...and this is why our society needs to stop thinking in terms of race. It only separates humanity further. We are all human. To go farther with that, we are all living entities on (and a part of) this planet.

Issues of race and the implications that come with it do not help society in any way (except maybe helping some form cultural values...but this benefit does not outweigh the harm that the concept of race causes, imo).

 

I would also like to add that I only really connect to my race on a personal/spiritual level. It's not something I regularly talk about...or base my identity on, which I think is very uncomfortable for a lot of people. I've had a lot of people try to force me to limit myself in that way...I also have a hard time checking those little boxes on forms...to me it really is a limitation to label ourselves in that way...but I still think it's important to talk about the implications of race in society as a whole...while disconnecting from the idea that you are or represent your race.

 

You go girl.

 

People are capable of racism, no exceptions.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5uMbMJ2EUQ"]Diane Abbott MP - A Racist & Champagne Socialist? - YouTube





Well she certainly is, and can't even hide it. I hate this bitch

 

your racist

 

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the “belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races” and the expression of such prejudice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

 

Damn, that means I'm racist since I assume people of East Asian heritage are naturally superior in mathematics and playing the violin.

 

by that definition, you're technically a racist if you state that you believe black people have dark skin.

 

Not all black people have dark skin.

 

It may sound that way but I believe it says that you are racist if you believe those skills make them a superior/inferior people.

Especially if you think that distinguishes them as superior/inferior is the understanding I get from reading that.